Jiang Nian glanced at the apple in her hand, enclosed in a small transparent crystal box, appearing like a bouquet of white flowers.
"Not environmental at all, how can you protect the earth’s environment ."
"Humph, mind your own business!" Lin Yuxi said, naively and romantically raising her head, "Kardashian isn’t minded, so why care about my romance!"
"You’re in a relationship, huh? Congratulations then." Jiang Nian took the apple, "When you get married, I’ll gift you fifty."
He had learned this ’fifty for a banquet’ trick from Fangfang.
"You!!!" Lin Yuxi was so annoyed she was grinding her teeth, "Senior, how can you be so annoying, I’m giving you an apple!"
"And then?" Jiang Nian, seeing that the surroundings were safe, didn’t mind chatting a bit more, "Is it to wish me peace?"
"No, I... I want to date you!"
"13-4035?" The owner of the courier store called out, interrupting the conversation, "Whose package is 4035, come and take it!"
"Me!" Jiang Nian stuffed the apple back into her hand.
Lin Yuxi watched as Jiang Nian dragged something as tall as a person away, standing there dumbfounded.
"An inflatable doll, my Xingyu is quite strong." Jiang Nian didn’t care, "Bye, I’m going home with my girlfriend."
Lin Yuxi quickly caught up, shoving the box back to him.
"You’re really strong!" Lin Yuxi’s brain seemed to short-circuit, missing the point and randomly blurting that out.
"You compliment people so straightforwardly." Jiang Nian said.
"No, I mean..." As Lin Yuxi thought about what she wanted to say, her cheeks flushed red, "It’s not good for your health this way."
Jiang Nian nodded, "But it feels great."
Lin Yuxi let out an "ah," resembling a pig’s head chasing a swallow. She hurried her steps, catching up to Jiang Nian, her face turning red as she said.
"There...there are other solutions, if it really doesn’t work... Senior, you... you can date me!"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Nian stopped in his tracks.
"Wh... what?" Lin Yuxi stammered, puffing out her chest, "I can still grow, don’t underestimate me."
She had long guessed Jiang Nian’s preferences, quite peculiar.
"Then let’s talk when you grow up, distant water won’t quench present thirst." Jiang Nian teased, waving as he directly left.
Lin Yuxi stood on the street, ready to gnash her teeth.
She didn’t believe at all in Jiang Nian’s so-called wait-until-you-grow-up statement, just like how the promised New Year money from her parents never materialized.
After getting into high school, she excitedly asked them for it.
The result was them saying.
"In the eyes of mom and dad, you’re always a child no matter how old."
Outrageous! So shameless!
Lin Yuxi looked at Jiang Nian’s departing figure, silently vowing in her heart. Before he takes the college entrance exam, she must make the senior fall for her!
It’s said that university life is quite open, with frequent trips and hotel stays.
Senior won’t be able to resist!
At noon, there was no one home in both houses.
Jiang Nian had nothing to worry about, carrying the package up to the third floor in one go, marveling at his own strength.
He opened the door with a click, retrieving the key from across the house.
He took out a utility knife from his pocket, slicing open the package.
A real Christmas tree, bought from an online marketplace. This was Jiang Nian’s Christmas Eve gift, harsher than anyone else’s idea.
Giving gifts is actually a hassle.
Too expensive and it won’t be accepted, too cheap and it’s meaningless.
A regular classmate might just delve into giving edible gifts, since as long as the other party can’t easily refuse, accepting it acknowledges the sentiment.
Jiang Nian didn’t take the usual path, bringing the tree into the home. If you don’t want it, just throw it away, provided you can carry it out yourself.
Then just keep it, I can’t move it either.
After decorating with a clang, he put a little pepper lipstick case into the sock, and whose sock you ask... Of course, it was Xu Qianqian’s sock.
He took it from the balcony, a special circumstance.
Just having a Christmas tree is far from enough; it can only be said as an irresistible bold move. His relationship with Xu Qianqian made it perfectly appropriate to gift lipstick.
Childhood friends, giving her first lipstick isn’t over the top, right?
The little pepper isn’t expensive, but choosing a lipstick shade is tricky.
Jiang Nian didn’t really understand, ordering it after reading guides for a long time. If he bought a mousy brown, it’d be obvious he didn’t put any thought into it.
Some lipstick shades look good in pictures but turn out completely different when actually applied.
Due to different skin tones.
After everything, Jiang Nian went downstairs, grabbed his bike to ride back to school. He picked up a few packages at the door, bought a cloth bag while at it.
He swung the packages around at the main entrance; the school was locked for lunch break. A few people at the gate were also waiting, one squatting and reciting from a book.
"Forget it, I’ll head to the North Gate and ride the bike in." Jiang Nian didn’t want to wait, so he slipped away.
He arrived outside the North Gate, finding the electric bike thrown at the wall’s base. With a twist of the key, he rode off immediately.
After a few minutes, the electric bike stopped at a half-open small courtyard.
Jiang Nian hadn’t dismounted yet, hearing the splashing sound of water from inside the house. The small windows were tightly shut, water flowing messily at the door. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel·fıre·net
He felt slightly embarrassed, they hadn’t returned to the classroom. Guessing they took a physical test, Chen Yunyun and another girl washed their hair and took a shower.
Also being too busy to think about this turn of events.
Forget it, I’ll just leave the bike and go.
Suddenly, a small gap in the window opened. White mist spilled from the gap, and a girl’s low voice called out.
"Hey, wait a moment."
Jiang Nian thought to himself that perhaps he just arrived at the wrong time. But... now! Perhaps it was the right time.
He parked the electric bike in front of the storeroom door, more accurately... this should be called a bathhouse to make recharging easier.
At this moment, just one wall apart.
Through the window, he heard the rustling sound of clothes being put on inside the room, shaking his head in amusement.